Paleontological fossil-found sites on stamps and other philatelic items

Note: The list is possible not completed. Corrections, updates, comments are appreciated.

Argentina :
Ischigualasto
formation - Talampaya Natural
Parks. Paleontological location of Ischigualasto (Valle de
la Luna)
The Ischigualasto
Formation contains Late Triassic (Carnian) deposits (231.4 -225.9 million years before the present[1]), with
some of the oldest known dinosaur remains, which are the world's first
with regards to quality, number and importance. It is the only place in
the world where nearly all of the Triassic is represented in an
undisturbed sequence of rock deposits. This allows for the study of the
transition between dinosaurs and ancient mammals; research is
ongoing.
Rhynchosaurs and cynodonts are by far the predominant
findings among the tetrapod fossils in the park. Dinosaurs comprise only
6% of the findings, but these include early samples of the two major
lineages of dinosaurs (ornithischians and saurischians). The carnivorous
archosaur Herrerasaurus is the most numerous of these dinosaur fossils.
Another important putative dinosaur with primitive characteristics is
Eoraptor lunensis, found in Ischigualasto in the early
1990s.

Australia:
Victoria Fossil
Cave, Naracoorte Caves
National Park
Naracoorte Caves is a national park near Naracoorte in the
Limestone Coast tourism region in the south-east of South Australia
(Australia).It was officially recognised in 1994 for its extensive
fossil record when the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List,
along with Riversleigh. The park preserves 6 km of remnant vegetation,
with 26 caves contained within the 3.05 km World Heritage
Area.
The limestone of the area was formed from coral and marine
creatures 200 million years ago and again 20 million years ago when the
land was below sea level. Ground water since then has dissolved and eroded
some of the limestone, creating the caves. The caves, such as the Victoria
Fossil Cave and Blanche Cave, are often not far below ground, and holes
open up creating traps for the unwary. This is the source of the
remarkable collection of fossils. Mammals and other land creatures have
fallen into open caves and been unable to escape. The fossil record has
been preserved in strata formed from eroded topsoil washed and blown in.
In some places, the fossil-bearing silt is up to 20 metres thick. Some of
these areas are being preserved for future research when better methods of
dating and reconstructing fossil records may have been found. These fossil
traps are especially significant for tracing Australian
megafauna.

Brazil: Lagoa Santa:
In 1835 Danish paleontologist Peter Lund decided to
settle in Lagoa Santa, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, finding the perfect
place to live quietly and develop his work. In nine years of research he
explored more than a hundred caves, and found about 120 fossil species and
94 belonging to the current fauna. He thus became the Father of Brazilian
Paleontology. These findings were of great importance for the studies
undertaken by British naturalist Charles Darwin on the Theory of
Evolution.In 1844, Lund ended his work in the cave, and took a new
direction in his research. In 1845, he sent his magnificient collection to
the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and then devoted himself to
botany. Currently this rich colection is at the Zoological Museum in
Copenhagen.

Egypt:
Wadi
Al-Hitan, Whale Valley,
in the Western Desert of Egyptis a paleontological site in the Al Fayyum Governorate of
Egypt, some 150 km southwest of Cairo[1]. It was designated a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in July 2005 for its hundreds of fossils of some of the
earliest forms of whale, the archaeoceti (a now extinct sub-order of
whales). The site reveals evidence for the explanation of one of the
greatest mysteries of the evolution of whales: the emergence of the whale
as an ocean-going mammal from a previous life as a land-based animal. No
other place in the world yields the number, concentration and quality of
such fossils, as is their accessibility and setting in an attractive and
protected landscape. This is why it was added by the UNESCO to the list of
protected World Heritage sites.
The fossils found at the site may not be the oldest but
their great concentration in the area and the degree of their preservation
is to the extent that even some stomach contents are intact. The presence
of fossils of other early animals such as sharks, crocodiles, sawfish,
turtles and rays found at Wadi El-Hitan makes it possible to reconstruct
the surrounding environmental and ecological conditions of the time,
adding to its justification to be cited as a Heritage
site.
The first fossil skeletons of whales were discovered in the
winter of 1902-3.For the next 80 years they attracted relatively little
interest, largely due to the difficulty of reaching the area. In the 1980s
interest in the site resumed as four wheel drive vehicles became more
readily available. Continuing interest coincided with the site being
visited by fossil collectors, and many bones were removed, prompting calls
for the site to be conserved. The remains display the typical streamlined
body form of modern whales, yet retaining some of the primitive aspects of
skull and tooth structure. The largest skeleton found reached up to 21 m
in length, with well-developed five-fingered flippers on the forelimbs and
the unexpected presence of hind legs, feet, and toes, not known previously
in any archaeoceti.
Their form was serpentine and they were carnivorous. A few
of these skeletal remains are exposed but most are shallowly buried in
sediments, slowly uncovered by erosion. Wadi El-Hitan provides evidences
of millions of years of coastal marine life.

Germany: Messel
Pit
The Messel Pit (German:
Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel, about
35 km (22 mi) southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bituminous shale was
mined there. Because of its abundance of fossils, it has significant
geological and scientific importance. After almost becoming a landfill,
strong local resistance eventually stopped these plans, and the Messel Pit
was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site on 9 December 1995. Significant
scientific discoveries are still being made, and the site has increasingly
become a tourism site as well.
German Post issued
stamps depicting fossil-founded in Messel twice, on 1978 and 1998.

Germany:
SolnhofenSolnhofen is a municipality in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen
in the region of Franconia in the Land of Bavaria in Germany. It lies
within the Altmühl valley. The local area is renowned in geology for
Solnhofen limestone. This is a very fine grained limestone from the
Jurassic period which is renowned for its role as a Lagerstätte that
preserves detailed fossil specimens. Alois Senefelder used specially
prepared blocks of the fine Solnhofen limestone for the process of
lithography which he invented in 1798. The quarrying of this lithographic
limestone subsequently yielded spectacular finds, including Archaeopteryx,
commemorated in the bird's full name Archaeopteryx lithographica. All
eleven known specimens have come from the Solnhofen
area.

Italy :
Dunarobba fossil
forest nearby Avigliano UmbroThe Dunarobba fossil forest nearby Avigliano Umbro, has
been discovered in the 70s, but the work to bring it up to surface are not
yet finished. All the trees belong to a family of sequoia which used to
be present in this part of italy more than one million years ago. The
particularity with this forest is that the trees lay in vertical position
and not horizantally as it is the case for other fossil forests. This
would confirm the theory that a flood could have overwhelmed the forest
preserving it in the shape we admire today. The fossiles have enormous
dimensions: 1.5 m in diameter and between 5 and 10 meters in
high.